Breakfast Air Fried Potatoes

These Breakfast Air Fried Potatoes are crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, just how breakfast potatoes should be. Step by step photos included to get the perfect breakfast potatoes in the air fryer. This post may contain affiliate links, please read my full disclosure here.

I love to make a big breakfast for my little family on Saturday mornings. This breakfast can range from biscuits and gravy (yum), to buttermilk pancakes (double yum), to freezer waffles (I know, I know…not so yum). Our weekend morning breakfast wouldn’t be complete without some good old fashioned breakfast potatoes as a side.

Making breakfast potatoes was a stressful task and a tad bit annoying before I bought my air fryer. Fact is, multitasking when it comes to making a complete breakfast is just downright exhausting. The beauty about these breakfast air fried potatoes is that they can be made in the air fryer while you tend to the more fun part of breakfast, like toasting your frozen waffles 😉

How to Air Fry Potatoes

Air Frying potatoes is pretty simple and can be done in 5 easy steps.

Chop the potatoes

Soak the potatoes

Dry the potatoes

Season the potatoes

Air Fry the potatoes

All 5 steps are critical in making the perfect breakfast potatoes in the air fryer, especially step number 2, soaking the potatoes. I’m sure many people will be dissapointed when they hear about doing this step but it’s necessary. Soaking potatoes in cold water removes the extra starch that potatoes have and results in a potato that is perfectly crisp on the outside and tender on the inside. It’s actually a method used by many chefs when it comes to frying a potato in hot oil. It makes sense that the same process would apply to the air fryer.

Optional Add Ins for Breakfast Air Fried Potatoes

Feel free to have fun with these breakfast potatoes. I like to keep my super simple and use dry seasonings. You can add onions and peppers if you like. You can also adjust the seasonings for taste preference. Just make sure to put a bottle of hot sauce on the table when serving because…hot sauce is amazing.